At the turn of the 19th century harold peto architect and garden designer found a small and completely pendulous pale shell pink flowering cherry on one of his plant collecting trips to the east he named it the iford cherry and it was planted on the iford terraces and trailed down the terrace banks and along the paths creating a truly magnificent sight by all accounts of the time in 1999 the present owners of iford manor decided to propagate from the only surviving tree which by then had onl